1,233 Quotes About Tears

There will be tears in the best of times and laughter in the worst.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

Rembrandt portrays the father as the man who has transcended the ways of his children. His own loneliness and anger may have been there, but they have been transformed by suffering and tears. I see the immense beauty of the father’s emptiness and compassion.

if i have never seen you cry.if you do not cry.if you do not value or respect the needs of your water.you and i can not form.if you can not allow your own being to wash over you.how will mine ever make it past your skin.–– available

You can always count on tears to tell you what’s true.

At times one feels happy being sad.

The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?